5 Reasons Your Business Might Not Have the Right First Aid Kits

By White Martha

Every place of work needs a first aid kit--there's no getting around it. And yet if there's one notion safety suppliers take note of over and over, it's that many companies make a collection of simple errors when discussing safety--screw-ups that are easy to get around. None of these things are really heavy errors, just ordinary things that can happen in the workplace.

But as any employee who has gone through a rough office incident knows very well, 'everyday' work environment ignorance can end up leading to accidents very much out of the ordinary. Thinking about this fact, I hope to examine five everyday mistakes companies commit with first aid kits, and how we can easily solve them.

1) Choosing the wrong kind of kit. Depending on the mode of business environment you have, your safety concerns will be shifting. There are several varying types of kits, all directed towards the necessities of a particular place. Making sure your purchase fits is the first priority.

2) Customizing their own first-aid kit despite a lack of expertise. Just like we call trained paramedics for any medical issue or incident, we have first aid kits which are made to be suitable for the biggest number of possible outcomes. If your office is making a custom first-aid kit, seek some help from the people with experience.

3) Not getting what's in their box. This is an eternal problem--staff are hit with a situation, throw open the first aid kit, and are completely confused by the majority of what's in most first aid kits. Some quick brushing up will sort out the issue in no time.

4) Overdoing the use of a portable first aid kit. Lots of people turn to portable kits, and they're extremely helpful. But all too often, those self-same kits are ported into a corporate environment and easily morph into 'the' kit of the office. When you're here, you've just violated rule number 1 once again.

5) Not maintaining their kit. If serious accidents are rare-to-non-existent on a job site, nicely done. But when a first-aid kit really does get used, its contents need to be replaced, and that can't be delayed--nobody can predict when an accident might come about in the future. An under-stocked kit is like not possessing one entirely.

Each of these concerns can be dealt with in minutes--today's kit suppliers are rapid, great value, and can give you perfect first aid kits to suit any company's requirements. Avoid making these five common errors, and make an office that's fully covered for all. - 29972

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